Welcome to 2020’s hottest new trend: nostalgia for 2019. In the new episode of Rolling Stone Music Now, Rob Sheffield and Brittany Spanos join host Brian Hiatt for an in-depth look at last year’s music, mostly through the prism of its best songs, from Megan Thee Stallion’s “Cash Shit” (with …
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Eminem surprise-released his 11th album on midnight Thursday, ending weeks of rumors and speculation on when the rapper would unveil the follow-up to 2018’s Kamikaze. The 20-song album features guest appearances by Ed Sheeran, Black Thought, Q-Tip, Royce Da 5’9″, Anderson .Paak, Young M.A., and a posthumous appearance by Juice …
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“All my friends are at the party/But I’ve got other plans,” Ella O’Connor Williams, the indie singer-songwriter who records as Squirrel Flower, tells us on “Streetlight Blues.” If those plans involved heading home to write this song, it was alone-time well-spent. Williams grew up in Boston and went to college …
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UPDATE:Bon Jovi have added two more dates to their summer tour: A July 11th concert in Montreal and a second concert in Boston July 17th. Tickets for both shows go on sale March 6th. ** Bon Jovi have scheduled a North American tour for this summer in support of their …
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Ethan Gruska has been there all through Phoebe Bridgers‘ rise to the top of the singer-songwriter pack. The grandson of Star Wars composer John Williams and one half of the brother-sister duo the Belle Brigade, Gruska has had a hand in producing Bridgers’ 2017 debut, Stranger in the Alps; her …
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The theme of Code Orange‘s new video for “Underneath” — the pummeling yet catchy title track off their upcoming LP — is total confusion. Singer-guitarist Reba Meyers sings in a padded room. Keyboardist Eric “Shade” Balderose looks like a mad scientist. Bassist Joe Goldman is chained to a wall. The …
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Billie Eilish, Ariana Grande, Shawn Mendes and Lizzo all picked up multiple nominations for the 2020 iHeartRadio Music Awards, set to air live March 29th on Fox at 8 p.m. ET. Eilish, Grande and Lizzo are all up for Female Artist of the Year, alongside Halsey and Taylor Swift, while …
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Coldplay, the Jonas Brothers, Brittany Howard and Brandi Carlile will perform headlining sets at the Hollywood Palladium in Los Angeles as part of the Citi Sound Vault series, set to take place the week of the 2020 Grammy Awards. Coldplay will kick off the special set of shows, produced by …
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Bon Iver have canceled their upcoming Come Through shows with the Minnesota dance group, TU Dance, after the company’s co-founder was accused of sexual harassment, the Minneapolis Star Tribune reports. The performances were set to take place in Houston, Nashville and New Orleans at the end of February. Refunds are …
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So, How Was Your Decade is a series in which the decade’s most innovative musicians answer our questionnaire about the music, culture and memorable moments that shaped their decade. We’ll be rolling these pieces out throughout December. Conor Oberst spent the 2010s busier than most of his songwriter peers.He released …
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